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Each of the films the group travels through has morals surrounding discarding individuality and personality and conforming to others' expectations and consequences. Whilst traveling, the group changes the films' endings, giving them happy endings as Hikari and Nagi watch from the theater. Upon returning, Doe presents them with a key that unlocks each of the 4 locks on the door.
With all the locks unlocked, the group exits the cinema, only to discover the world where the borderline between cinema and reality gradually begins to blur. Nagi then reveals her true nature as Enlil, an entity that draws depressed and miserable people into her world and has them re-watch their memories, trapping them there with their lack of desire to escape. Using Hikari's edited films, the group purifies the Theater District and sends a calling card to Enlil. After a climactic battle with Hikari's help, the group defeats Enlil and makes her realize humanity's possibilities.
As the party explores the labyrinth, which appears as a cheerful, yet highly unsettling fairytale landscape, they encounter musical-like stages; each of them representing a personal trauma that Hikari experienced in the past, starting from primary school to her eventual breakdown. As soon as they reach the first of them, they encounter a younger version of Hikari being tormented by a copy of her teacher, followed by the real Hikari appearing. The copy transforms into a Shadow and attacks the party. After defeating the Shadow, Hikari reveals that she was not kidnapped by Doe, but had instead voluntarily entered with him so she could face herself and remember the events that ruined her life.
The party enters the depths of the labyrinth, which in sharp contrast from the cheerful-looking upper levels, appears as a monochrome and sinister flowerbed with the flowers having hollow eyes and tearing blood, symbolizing its owner's desire for self-destruction as an end to her pain, and the viewing of her life as torture. Doe appears in the center clearing. Hikari claims that he is not an enemy and confesses all of her self-destructive behavior, also stating that she will never forget him. He expresses a desire to keep her forever in the Cinema to end all of her pain, which she denies. He becomes berserk, transforming into a morbid abomination. When the party destroys his head, his remains spill ichor that triple binds the party. Hikari steps in with a new skill to aid them, using her support to remove binds from party members and they defeat the rampaging Doe.
After the negative films are replaced, the party and Hikari confront Enlil and send a calling card to her. She reads the calling card and is severely angered as the Theater District begins to be purified by the edited versions of Hikari's movies. The purified movies display Kamoshidaman expressing a desire to protect the weak, the Herbivore Dinosaurs and Yosukesaurus begin respecting each other's opinions, Ribbon teaches a group of robots with personality to love flowers, and the high school copy of Hikari makes Doe vanish by expressing the will to escape the Cinema and for her father to watch her movie.
Unlike the previous game, Persona Q, there is no route selection; Persona 5's cast is the main focus. The game is not dubbed in English, similar to Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux, and instead has English subtitles with Japanese voices. Additionally, horror elements are toned down, and labyrinths are made easier to navigate compared to PQ.
A mechanic originally in Persona Q has returned, which involves no protagonist having the power of the Wild Card because of the distortion of the new world; rather all party members are able to be equipped with a second persona (Sub-Personas), which can be summoned in battle. While Sub-Personas retain their six skill slots, main Personas now also have six skill slots which are populated by skills they inherently learn. The skills gained by a main Persona's transformation are stronger versions of their inherent unique skill, and there is no skill slot reserved for the Persona's evolution. Skills are no longer forcibly upgraded to their stronger (but more expensive) version, allowing for greater customizability of a main Persona's build.
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If you're not already aware, the Persona Q games are a pair of 3DS games made by the studio that makes the Etrian Odyssey series. Etrian Odyssey is a dungeon crawler RPG where you and a party of characters venture through labyrinths in first person, facing random encounters, environmental puzzles, hidden treasures and the like. The main feature is using the 3DS's touch screen to manually fill the map in as you go, adding icons to signify treasures, switches, secret passages and so on. There's something very satisfying about filling out a map, seeing those clear squares turn coloured as you go, adding all the details and seeing it come together. Persona Q is essentially the exact idea, but with a Persona skin on it. You play as the characters from Persona 3, 4 and 5 (just 3 and 4 in the first Q) and the story has you dealing with the same kind of themes and motifs you normally encounter in Persona. Things like struggling with identity and individuality, facing the pressures of conforming to society and finding one's place in the world.
Persona Q2 is a game full of fanservice, and not ashamed of it. As someone who is a devout Persona fan, I couldn't be happier. There are so many cute references, recurring jokes and nods that will have any veteran of the series grinning ear to ear. The entire game is a crossover, built on the premise of "What if the characters from these three games all met each other?" The results are equal parts cute, funny and wholesome. There is something inherently enjoyable about seeing characters you love individually coming together and interacting in ways you both will and won't expect, in a "safe" environment where you don't have to worry about canon being completely obliterated. Even better, upon completing side quests, you can unlock special union attacks, similar to the ones seen in Persona 5 Royal, where two or more characters team up to deal a powerful strike, injecting their own personalities and style into them. All of them are great and get me pumped up whenever they happen. The fanservice goes beyond that, each team (P3, P4 and P5) have their own unique themes that are each like something that could have easily come from their respective games - they even got those singers to come back. So Shihoko Hirata sings the P4 squad's theme, Lyn does the P5 one, and so on. I mean shit, if you want to talk fanservice, the female protagonist from Persona 3 Portable is in the game!
But as enjoyable as all of the above is to me, it's for that reason I have a hard time selling it to someone who isn't already on board the Persona hype train. While the game is of course a perfectly servicable dungeon JRPG in its own right, the core appeal of it really is the IP. If you jumped in with little to no knowledge, you'd be lost, and the game only makes the smallest effort to get you caught up. Characters reference events that happen in the mainline games, albeit fairly indirectly, there are countless in-jokes and musical cues that you wouldn't catch, and the characterisation would seem somewhat thin because, as I said before, everyone's personalities and stories have already been established in the main series, and the game uses that as a jumping off point, rather than starting from scratch. A lot of stuff just probably wouldn't make a lot of sense, like the involvement of the P3P female protag. You'd probably feel overwhelmed because all in all there are about 30 party members and while you do get them fed to you in small groups throughout the first half of the game, it's hard for most of them to really make their mark.
Most of the characters have good writing and seem true to their personalitiesfrom the main Persona series. Their personality quirks are all exaggerated tosome extent, especially Akihiko. Persona Q1 had the same problem, where Akihikobasically just talked about protein powder in every other scene, and competedagainst Shinjiro in the rest. However, I do think they exaggerated Akihiko alittle less in Persona Q2, which is nice.
One of the original characters, Hikari, is also written well. She starts out asquite a mystery, but eventually you learn more about her, and more about herpersonality. I thought her story was pretty touching.
These movie-centric themes were better than the ones in the previous game too,they had more personality. Although, as a Jurassic Park fan, I might be biasedhere since one of the dungeons in Persona Q2 is a Jurassic Park parody.
As previously mentioned, the Persona Q series is a cross between Persona and the Etrian Odyssey franchise. Etrian Odyssey is a long-running JRPG series that focuses on first-person exploration. That exploration includes map making, dungeon-crawling and of course material -arming. Needless to say that Persona Q uses a few of these mechanics, with my personal favorite being the map making element.
Fans of the Persona series will delight in this dungeon crawling sequel that features characters from the 3 most recent mainline titles. If you can get past the initial difficulty, you'll happily spend hours in this lighthearted and challenging labyrinth-filled world.
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